Re: [PATCH net] vlan: require the MAC header to be present in __vlan_insert_inner_tag()
From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-19 07:45:40
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 01:31:52AM -0700, Xiang Mei wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
__vlan_insert_inner_tag() only guarantees head room via skb_cow_head(), never that mac_len bytes of MAC header are present. Its ETH_HLEN wrappers - __vlan_insert_tag() under skb_vlan_push(), and vlan_insert_tag() under validate_xmit_vlan() on the generic transmit path - therefore rewrite the first 16 bytes at skb->data: a 12-byte memmove plus two 2-byte stores at +12 and +14. No caller supplies the bound, while the pop helpers use skb_ensure_writable()/pskb_may_pull(). An IFF_TUN device has hard_header_len == 0, so packet_snd() accepts a one-byte AF_PACKET/SOCK_RAW frame. The first vlan push only sets a hwaccel tag; the next - clsact "action vlan push" or bpf_skb_vlan_push() - enters the helper with skb->len still 1. The head comes from skbuff_small_head without __GFP_ZERO, so each push drags bytes from beyond skb->tail into the frame. After three the one-byte send leaves as 13 bytes carrying 11 bytes of uninitialised slab: 0000: 5a b3 62 12 80 88 ff ff 00 b3 62 12 81 `------------------------------' only 0x5a was sent; the rest is slab, here the top 56 bits of a linear-map address Require the MAC header the helper rewrites to be present, so such a frame is dropped rather than transmitted. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: co+0ea1ac045375cf05@bugs.sh Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <redacted> --- include/linux/if_vlan.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)diff --git a/include/linux/if_vlan.h b/include/linux/if_vlan.h index 20cc16ea4e5a..4846032bf4ff 100644 --- a/include/linux/if_vlan.h +++ b/include/linux/if_vlan.h@@ -365,6 +365,9 @@ static inline int __vlan_insert_inner_tag(struct sk_buff *skb, const u8 meta_len = mac_len > ETH_TLEN ? skb_metadata_len(skb) : 0; struct vlan_ethhdr *veth; + if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, mac_len))) + return -EINVAL; + if (skb_cow_head(skb, meta_len + VLAN_HLEN) < 0) return -ENOMEM;
TBH I am surprised that we have a bug like this in this function. But your analysis matches my understanding of the code. Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>